Dictionary of Welsh Biography

LLWYD, HUMPHREY (1527 - 1568), physician and antiquary ); Commentarioli Descriptionis Britannicae Fragmentum (Cologne, 1572), translated into English by Thomas Twyne as The Breuiary of Britayne (1573); an English translation of the chronicle of Wales ascribed to Caradoc of Llancarvan; an enlarged version of a tract by Sir John Price of Brecon, entitled The Description of Cambria, which became the basis of The Historie of Cambria now called Wales … Corrected
LLWYD, HUW (Huw Llwyd o Gynfal; 1568? - 1630?), soldier and bard to Edmund Prys). In one cywydd he asks Thomas Prys, of Plas Iolyn, Denbighshire, for a couple of hounds; see also a cywydd by Hugh Salesbury who asks Edward Lloyd, S. Asaph, to let Huw Llwyd have a greyhound cub this was on 6 October 1606. A medical treatise in the hand of Ellis Wynne ('Y Bardd Cwsc') in Peniarth MS 123 is taken from a MS. belonging to Huw Llwyd, who appears to have had some skill
LLWYD, RICHARD (Bard of Snowdon; 1752 - 1835), poet and authority on Welsh heraldry and genealogy read in the B.M. Library; he was introduced on this visit to Owen Jones, William Owen Pughe, Sharon Turner, and others. Owing to his acquaintance with several members of landed and other families he was able to procure financial assistance (from the Royal Literary Fund, etc.), for such persons as David Thomas (Dafydd Ddu Eryri), Richard Robert Jones (Dic Aberdaron), and Jonathan Hughes. He came to be
LLWYD, HUMPHREY (c. 1527 - 1568), antiquary and map-maker historical and geographical description of Britain, which was published in Cologne in 1572 through the influence of Ortelius. An English translation of this work was published by Thomas Twyne as The breviary of Britayne (1573). The other two works were maps; a map of England and Wales entitled Angliae regni florentissimi nova descriptio and a map of Wales, Cambriae typus, both published in the Theatrum in
LLYWELYN ap MOEL Y PANTRI (d. 1440) Llanwnnog, poet , cxxxiii); it is also suggested that his father ('Moel y Pantri') was the real author of two other poems attributed to Llywelyn in some MSS. (Iolo Goch ac Eraill, 1925 ed., cxxix). No details are known concerning the life of his son OWAIN, but a large number of his poems remain in manuscript, see Jones and Lewis, Mynegai; Bodewryd MS 1D; Brogyntyn MSS. 1, 2, 6; Cwrtmawr MS 312B; Gwysaney MS. 25; NLW MS
LLYWELYN FARDD (fl. c. 1150-1175), poet His dates and list of works are not easily fixed. Cerdd Dafod gives c. 1185 - 1220, but J. Lloyd-Jones has c. 1155 - 1200. It may be suggested that there were two poets of the same name, one in the 12th century, and the other in the 13th century, and that that is why the ' Red Book of Hergest ' refers to ' Llywelyn Fardd, son of Cywryd.' This poet was the earlier, and apparently a native of
LLYWELYN SION (fl. second half of the 16th century), poet, farmer, at one time beadle or crier in the courts, a professional copyist by trade, and one of the most important figures in the literary life of Glamorganshire his reputation to the fact that he was the greatest professional copyist of his time; he was not as prolific a copyist as John Jones (1578? - 1658?) of Gellilyfdy or Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt, but his MSS. are far more systematic and he has kept aloof from contemporary literary prejudices. There are thirteen of his MSS. still in existence - seven being collections of cywyddau and awdlau, one of
LLYWELYN-WILLIAMS, ALUN (1913 - 1988), poet and literary critic Wynford Vaughan Thomas, one of his lifelong friends. Between 1940 and 1945, he felt 'moral obligation' (Gwanwyn yn y Ddinas) to take action against Nazism and served as an officer with the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, the 'literary' regiment in which Hedd Wyn, Robert Graves, Llywelyn Wyn Griffith, David Jones and Siegfried Sassoon served during the First World War. After joining the army in November 1940, he
LORT family Stackpole, Quaker, Charles Lloyd (II) of Dolobran. On the other hand Roger alone made some show of service in arms for the king. It is believed that Sampson, too, favoured the Restoration; he must have been dead by 1670, for the owner of a seven-hearth house in Manorbier in 1670 was a Thomas Lort (W. Wales Hist. Records, x, 190). Roger Lort was a man who loved his ease, and was fond of composing Latin epigrams
LOUGHER, Sir LEWIS (1871 - 1955), industrialist and politician Born 1 October 1871, second son of Thomas Lougher of Llandaff, Glamorganshire, and Charlotte, daughter of David Lewis, a farmer of Radyr Farm, Radyr, Cardiff. His family was deeply rooted in Glamorganshire; his father came from Wenvoe and his paternal grandfather from Garn-llwyd, Llancarfan. He was educated in Cardiff Secondary School and Cardiff Technical College, and was apprenticed to corn
LOUGHER, ROBERT (d. 1585?), civil lawyer and ecclesiastical administrator Born at Tenby, the youngest son of Thomas Lougher, alderman of the borough. He became a Fellow of All Souls, Oxford (as founder's kin), in 1553, and graduated B.C.L. in 1558 (9 July). In 1561-3 he was presented to three sinecure rectories in Devon and became archdeacon of Totnes (21 February 1562). He attended the Convocation of 1562-3 as prolocutor for the Devon clergy, acquiescing in the
LOVELAND, KENNETH (1915 - 1998), journalist and music critic Welsh composers - especially Daniel Jones, William Mathias and Alun Hoddinot. He also (probably with justification) claimed to have given the first press recognition to outstanding singers such as Geraint Evans, Gwyneth Jones and Margaret Price. Such advocacy might have been dismissed as the parochialism of a local reporter, but this never applied to Loveland, uprightly Home Counties to the core and

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